The SF Chronicle has been running a great series of photos taken in 1982 of various Bay Area high school kids and the fashions they wore. My favorite of the 3-part series, called The Big Event, documents kids from Lincoln High in the Sunset District of San Francisco. It's all Derby jackets, Pee-Chee folders, and Nike Cortez sneakers...what goes around comes around! Peter Hartlaub, the pop culture critic at the Chronicle, has put this project together using photos that originally ran the in the 1982 paper by photographer Gary Fong. Read about the project and see more pics HERE.
All pics and comments below taken directly from SFGate.
Sept. 17, 1982: Lincoln High's
hardest patiently wait for Metallica to form and release an album. Out
of the three schools profiled in 1982, Lincoln was definitely the most
badass. Derby jackets FTW.
You know it's 1982 in an SF public
school, when you see a guy use an entire bottle of Wite Out to write
''LOCAL 69 MUFFDIVE'' on his skateboard. Hoping he's an attorney now,
and his son is reading this.
Lincoln High students created a
special message for the Chronicle in the dirty windows of the school:
''F--- The World.'' And there's a couple making out in front of the
''the'' window. I miss high school.
According to my journalistic
research, this photo was taken on the Monday after Van Halen arrived at
the Cow Palace during the "Hide Your Sheep" tour. The guy on the far
right still thinks he's there.
This photo is a pretty complete 1982
SF fashion checklist: Feathered hair, Gap shopping bag, headband, giant
comb in the back pocket, 16-year-old smoking while on school property
...
These gentleman are dressed so
similarly, you'd think Lincoln High had a school uniform. I count two
Izod polo shirts and one Britannia. Also, note the crispness of the
jeans. An iron was involved.
I'm seeing a lingering ''Off the Wall''-era Michael Jackson influence here, especially with the girl on the far left. This is our first Pee-Chee folder sighting of this gallery. Drink!
Make sure to check out the other schools in the 3-part series because they are equally amazing...I couldn't decide which to post because I love them all!
McAteer High School
Tamalpais High School
All pics and comments below taken directly from SFGate.
Make sure to check out the other schools in the 3-part series because they are equally amazing...I couldn't decide which to post because I love them all!
McAteer High School
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